Crime And Punishment In Nineteenth Century Boston

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...punishment is seen as something that is evil by groups who contend that killing will just bring more killing. Others contend that punishments should fit the crimes and that the death penalty is applicable in some cases. Massachusetts in no different. The debate is furious there. In 1997, a law reinstating the death penalty was almost passed but ultimately failed. However, the ideology present in the state's past is not consistent with its present thinking. Digging back into the early history of Massachusetts, the Puritans who ran the Massachusetts Bay Colony made the crimes of adultery, witchcraft and fomenting rebellion, punishable by death (Zabarenko PG).
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